For it was me; I cursed myself.

ROUND 3 — Match 21 of 69

Ashley Graves (The Coffin of Andy and Leyley)

Problematic because: "She helps butcher and eat the cultist neighbour after the demon takes his soul. During the escape from the apartment, Andrew kills one guard while Ashley sacrifices the other guard’s soul to the demon. In Episode 2, she pushes Andrew toward killing their parents so they can’t reveal the siblings are alive, helps sacrifice their parents’ souls, kills their bodies afterward, disposes of the remains, and cooks some of their meat into soup for herself and Andrew to eat. In Episode 3A, she and Andrew can sacrifice a family of campers to recharge the trinket. Ashley is possessive, manipulative, jealous of anyone who might pull Andrew away from her, and the story explicitly gets incestuous. In the Burial route, they receive a premonition of themselves entering an sexual relationship, and Episode 3A also includes Andrew being forced to confront suppressed sexual feelings toward Ashley, and some route outcomes push the siblings further into a romantic/sexual dynamic."
Propaganda: 1. "I like her because she drives the story forward. Andrew hesitates, rationalises, and tries to act like he’s above it, and Ashley is usually the one saying the ugly part out loud. She’s selfish, clingy, jealous, and often the reason things get worse, but she’s also the reason the game has so much bite."
2. "she’s fun because she’s so openly terrible. she doesn’t have andrew’s whole “i’m the reasonable one” routine. ashley wants what she wants, usually andrew, safety, control, attention, or a way out, and she’ll push until she gets it. that makes her horrible, but it also makes her extremely watchable."
3. "She’s an incredibly fleshed out character. The entire game is her codependent relationship with her brother Andrew, and their struggles not only to survive the horrors being done to them, but to fully understand and connect with each other too. They are so beautifully toxic yet simultaneously adorable. They genuinely love each other more than anything, but so much traumatic baggage and bullshit keeps getting in the way of that. Also she turns her abusive parents into soup. An icon, truly."

vs. Eva Stratt (Project Hail Mary)

Problematic because: "Forces the main character - a guy she seemed genuinely fond of - onto a suicide mission, for starters. Does not give a fuck about morality if it helps Earth and humanity survive. Nukes Antarctica to increase global warning, which straight up sounds like a supervillain plot." "She paved the Sahara desert." "committed copyright law violations"
Propaganda: 1. "There's an Animorphs quote about how 'ruthless' doesn't mean 'mean', it's about seeing the bright clear line from A to B and not caring about anything else. Eva Stratt is ruthless. She needs to be. She does things that are cruel, that are destructive, that will have terrible consequences, and every one of them is calculated to give humanity the best chance at survival. She knows she'll likely go to prison for everything she's done, but she doesn't care; all that matters is that bright clear line."
2. "She did it all to save the world. To save as many humans as possible. Doesn’t that justify it? Doesn’t that make her actions worth it? She had to save the whole world, surely a few deaths along the way is okay."
3. "I support women's wrongs"
4. "She is not a bad person, and she was the one put in charge to save the world from freezing. She is a woman in charge, and because of the nature of that role, she ends up getting blamed for all the dubious stuff she had to do to save the earth and put in jail for something she had to do, which calls into question the nature of our society and how women are treated. Also, we support women’s wrongs"

(Disclaimer: All text above was sent in by submitters and not written by OP.)

oi you gonna carry that weight